This has been brewing in Iran for a few years now. The election was just the catalyst.
Yep, the people have had enough.
I think that must be a factor. But also: both Mousavi and Khorrubi have made removing the hated Basiji a plank of their platform.
From our point of view Mousavi is a bad guy, but he's enough of an opportunist to make reforms for cynical reasons. And if the Basiji are maimed as a political force then Iran will be much more open to Western influences.
I think you are correct. It has the smell of a genuine popular uprising. It could be what the world is in store for due to the multiplying digital communications now available.
Freedom. There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
told my other half the day of the election that this was possibly going to lead to a civil uprising over there....i hope that they don’t back down and that more people here take note and possibly follow suit to bring down obozo and his agenda....
Correct analysis. Wish we had a State Department and President who knew how to manage this.